If there's a need for inversion that's good info; would love to know the
purpose to get a sense of how people want to use the product.

On Saturday, October 3, 2015, Allen McIntosh <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Can you explain why you feel you must invert a very large matrix.  This
> can be a Bad Idea.
>
> On 10/03/2015 08:09 PM, go canal wrote:
> > oh, it is so unfortunate that the first step of my project requires
> > the inversion of a very large matrix. will have to revert back to
> > scalapack or MR based solutions I guess. thanks, canal
> >
> >
> > On Saturday, October 3, 2015 11:31 PM, Ted Dunning
> > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I doubt seriously that Samsara will support matrix inversion per se.
> > The problem is
> >
> > a) it densifies sparse matrices
> >
> > b) it is much more costly than solving a linear system
> >
> > Samsara is roughly memory based, but different back-ends will try to
> > spill to disk if necessary.  It is likely that the resulting
> > degradation in performance would be dramatic and thus unacceptable to
> > most users.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:47 PM, go canal <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> HiI saw some distributed matrix functions included in Samsara now.
> >> Wondering if we have a plan to support matrix inversion ?BTW, am I
> >> correct that it is distributed memory based, not out-of-core ?
> >> thanks, canal
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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